On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community.
Their goal is to eat only the organic produce they grow themselves, to free themselves from the national electricity grid, and to exchange what they grow or make instead of using money.
The project, whose ultimate goal is to create a school for sustainable living, was the idea of four Athenians who met online back in 2008 and bonded over their dissatisfaction with the daily grind of city life.
In their second year of living permanently on a forested patch of land next to the village of Aghios, 80 percent of the food they eat now comes from their two herb and vegetable gardens and the fruit they pick off the trees.
The group, almost all of whom follow a strict vegetarian diet, sleep communally in yurts - portable, tent-like dwellings made of tarp often seen in Central Asia.
Whatever is left over from their gardens, they exchange in the village for the supplies they cannot produce.
32-year-old co-founder Apostolos Sianos quit a well-paying job as a web site designer in Athens to help start the community, which is called 'Free and Real.'
[Apostolos Sianos, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The crisis or the austerity measures doesn't actually affect you because you create your life and your future everyday, it has nothing to do with the outside circle. It may (have) affected us, but only in a good way because more and more people are willing to be self-sufficient and sustainable, so they contact us, and more and more people after the crisis want to get involved."
The group actively use social media, and last year over one hundred people from Greece and abroad asked about joining or collaborating in some way.
Dionysis Papanikolaou, for example, gave up a lucrative academic career to be closer to nature and far from the heavy atmosphere of the financial crisis in Greece.
[Dionysis Papanikolaou, GroupMember]:
"If you keep on reading news, watching TV and the crisis, the crisis, the crisis, even subconsciously you say the crisis! Here, there is no crisis. I mean, it makes no difference."
The group take pride in being self-sufficient.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The reality of life is just outside your door. When you have to warm yourself up you actually have to go out in the wood and gather wood, fire wood, and bring it home to actually warm yourself up."
They currently organize seminars on organic farming and have drawn up the plans for a large school on sustainable living to be constructed later this summer, and for which they raised money on a crowdfunding site on the internet.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"I just try to be the change I want to be, instead of waiting for a government to make the change, or instead of voting for someone to make the change. I try to be the change."
For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com
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published:03 Aug 2012

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Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the FrontYard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
Featured Videos:
GrowingFood in Partial Shade: http://youtu.be/jNsECuNTSQY
How to Build a Keyhole Raised Bed Garden:
http://youtu.be/EXl48VNEe9Y

published:17 Jul 2014

views:1081600

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roslyn-Uttleymoore-Nutritionist/125806614147930
Holidaying on Kauai Hawaii - sharing our FoodFeast abundance from Wooten's OrganicFarm.
OriginalMusicDouglas Gillies Drifting
This video is one of a series we have made especially for Facebook, they are short & sweet.
Make sure you check out our other Facebook videos
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ChefMarcus Guiliano is an award-winning chef, green restaurateur, author, real food activist, professional speaker, restaurant consultant & ultra-marathoner. In addition to successfully owning and operating the first GreenCertified restaurant in the Hudson Valley, AromaThyme Bistro, Chef Marcus has begun to devote his time consulting and trouble shooting for other restaurants.

published:15 Jul 2016

views:1615

The GEF Small Grant Programme and the Fondation Ressources et Nature are providing funding and expertise to Mauritian farmers who wish to start growing organic produce. Within three years, organic certification has been awarded to one of the program member associations. In Mauritius, there are no regulations governing organic agriculture. The program's goal is to prove that it is possible to be certified organic to EU standards - a challenge that requires discipline, expertise and above all, funds.

Organic food

Organic foods are foods produced by organic farming. While the standards differ worldwide, organic farming in general features cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity. Synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers are not allowed, although certain approved pesticides may be used. In general, organic foods are also not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or synthetic food additives.

Currently, the European Union, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan and many other countries require producers to obtain special certification in order to market food as organic within their borders. In the context of these regulations, organic food is food produced in a way that complies with organic standards set by national governments and international organizations. Although the produce of kitchen gardens may be organic, selling food with the organic label is regulated by governmental food safety authorities, such as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) or European Commission.

Saltspring Island

The island was initially inhabited by various Salishan peoples before being settled by pioneers in 1859, at which time it was officially called Admiral Island. It was the first of the Gulf Islands to be settled and the first agricultural settlement on the islands in the Colony of Vancouver Island, as well as the first island in the region to permit settlers to acquire land through pre-emption. The island was retitled to its current name in 1910.

Salt Spring Island is the largest, most populous, and the most frequently visited of the Southern Gulf Islands.

References

External links

Salt Spring

Salt Spring, originally, Aguaje de la Brea (tar springs), a spring in the Antelope Plain on the southeast end of Pyramid Hills, 0.6 miles south of Emigrant Hill and 1.5 miles north of Wagon Wheel Mountain in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California. Its location appears on a 1914 USGS Topographic map of Lost Hills. Salt Spring is located just east of the Pyramid Hills and the Devils Den Oil Field, 3 miles southwest of Devils Den, close by the south side of Kecks Road, 0.23 miles east of the California Aqueduct, enclosed by a fence.

At a lower level of organization, infantry units commonly incorporate organic armour or artillery units to improve their combined arms capability. Organic assets are closely integrated into their parent unit's command structure and their personnel are familiar with other personnel in the parent unit, improving coordination and responsiveness and making the parent unit more self-sufficient.

However, over-emphasis of organic assets can create wasteful redundancy. For instance, an infantry unit assigned to urban peacekeeping duties might have little use for its organic artillery, while another unit deployed elsewhere might have less artillery support than it required. The question of how much to emphasise the use of organic assets, as opposed to coordination with separate units ('joint organization') is a subject of debate and heavily dependent on questions of command and control.

Farmers' market

A farmers' market (also farmers market) is a physical retail market featuring foods sold directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets typically consist of booths, tables or stands, outdoors or indoors, where farmers sell fruits, vegetables, meats, and sometimes prepared foods and beverages. They are distinguished from public markets, which are generally housed in permanent structures, open year-round, and offer a variety of non-farmer/producer vendors, packaged foods and non-food products.

Farmers' markets exist worldwide and reflect their local culture and economy. Their size ranges from a few stalls to several city blocks. In some cultures, live animals, imported delicacies unavailable locally, and personal goods and crafts are sold.

History

The current concept of a farmers' market is similar to past concepts, but different in relation to other forms – as aspects of consumer retailing, overall, continue to shift over time. Similar forms existed before the Industrial age but, were often part of broader markets, where suppliers of food and other goods gathered to retail their wares. Trading posts began a shift toward retailers who sold others' products more than their own. General stores and grocery stores continued that specialization trend in retailing, optimizing the consumer experience, while abstracting it further from production and production's growing complexities.

Farmer's Market (album)

Farmer's Market is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer, featuring performances recorded in 1956 and released on the New Jazz label.

Reception

The Allmusic review stated: "Considering this is early period Farmer, and that his work after leaving the U.S. for Europe led him to playing the softer toned flugelhorn and trumpet exclusively, it is an important document in his legacy, comparing favorably alongside peers Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, and an also emerging Donald Byrd or Lee Morgan".The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave it three stars out of four, commenting positively on Drew's soloing, but stating that the album "suffers slightly from unexpectedly heavy tempos and an erratic performance from Mobley".

Amazing Organic Produce @ The Farmer's Market on Salt Spring Island

Young Greeks Create Self-reliant Island Society

On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community.
Their goal is to eat only the organic produce they grow themselves, to free themselves from the national electricity grid, and to exchange what they grow or make instead of using money.
The project, whose ultimate goal is to create a school for sustainable living, was the idea of four Athenians who met online back in 2008 and bonded over their dissatisfaction with the daily grind of city life.
In their second year of living permanently on a forested patch of land next to the village of Aghios, 80 percent of the food they eat now comes from their two herb and vegetable gardens and the fruit they pick off the trees.
The group, almost all of whom follow a strict vegetarian diet, sleep communally in yurts - portable, tent-like dwellings made of tarp often seen in Central Asia.
Whatever is left over from their gardens, they exchange in the village for the supplies they cannot produce.
32-year-old co-founder Apostolos Sianos quit a well-paying job as a web site designer in Athens to help start the community, which is called 'Free and Real.'
[Apostolos Sianos, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The crisis or the austerity measures doesn't actually affect you because you create your life and your future everyday, it has nothing to do with the outside circle. It may (have) affected us, but only in a good way because more and more people are willing to be self-sufficient and sustainable, so they contact us, and more and more people after the crisis want to get involved."
The group actively use social media, and last year over one hundred people from Greece and abroad asked about joining or collaborating in some way.
Dionysis Papanikolaou, for example, gave up a lucrative academic career to be closer to nature and far from the heavy atmosphere of the financial crisis in Greece.
[Dionysis Papanikolaou, GroupMember]:
"If you keep on reading news, watching TV and the crisis, the crisis, the crisis, even subconsciously you say the crisis! Here, there is no crisis. I mean, it makes no difference."
The group take pride in being self-sufficient.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The reality of life is just outside your door. When you have to warm yourself up you actually have to go out in the wood and gather wood, fire wood, and bring it home to actually warm yourself up."
They currently organize seminars on organic farming and have drawn up the plans for a large school on sustainable living to be constructed later this summer, and for which they raised money on a crowdfunding site on the internet.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"I just try to be the change I want to be, instead of waiting for a government to make the change, or instead of voting for someone to make the change. I try to be the change."
For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com
Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision
Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C

5:34

How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden - 9 EZ tips

How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden - 9 EZ tips

How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden - 9 EZ tips

Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the FrontYard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
Featured Videos:
GrowingFood in Partial Shade: http://youtu.be/jNsECuNTSQY
How to Build a Keyhole Raised Bed Garden:
http://youtu.be/EXl48VNEe9Y

0:48

Food Feasting Island Style Wootens Organic Produce

Food Feasting Island Style Wootens Organic Produce

Food Feasting Island Style Wootens Organic Produce

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roslyn-Uttleymoore-Nutritionist/125806614147930
Holidaying on Kauai Hawaii - sharing our FoodFeast abundance from Wooten's OrganicFarm.
OriginalMusicDouglas Gillies Drifting
This video is one of a series we have made especially for Facebook, they are short & sweet.
Make sure you check out our other Facebook videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_ltX20ZnXSKrpzuun-_sXyGD2RbN3BaF

Top Organic Countries

ChefMarcus Guiliano is an award-winning chef, green restaurateur, author, real food activist, professional speaker, restaurant consultant & ultra-marathoner. In addition to successfully owning and operating the first GreenCertified restaurant in the Hudson Valley, AromaThyme Bistro, Chef Marcus has begun to devote his time consulting and trouble shooting for other restaurants.

3:23

FORENA : spearheading the organic farming movement in Mauritius

FORENA : spearheading the organic farming movement in Mauritius

FORENA : spearheading the organic farming movement in Mauritius

The GEF Small Grant Programme and the Fondation Ressources et Nature are providing funding and expertise to Mauritian farmers who wish to start growing organic produce. Within three years, organic certification has been awarded to one of the program member associations. In Mauritius, there are no regulations governing organic agriculture. The program's goal is to prove that it is possible to be certified organic to EU standards - a challenge that requires discipline, expertise and above all, funds.

Amazing Organic Produce @ The Farmer's Market on Salt Spring Island

Young Greeks Create Self-reliant Island Society

On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community.
Their goal is to eat only the organic produce they grow themselves, to free themselves from the national electricity grid, and to exchange what they grow or make instead of using money.
The project, whose ultimate goal is to create a school for sustainable living, was the idea of four Athenians who met online back in 2008 and bonded over their dissatisfaction with the daily grind of city life.
In their second year of living permanently on a forested patch of land next to the village of Aghios, 80 percent of the food they eat now comes from their two herb and vegetable gardens and the fruit they pick off the trees.
The group, almost all o...

published: 03 Aug 2012

How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden - 9 EZ tips

Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the FrontYard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed o...

published: 17 Jul 2014

Food Feasting Island Style Wootens Organic Produce

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roslyn-Uttleymoore-Nutritionist/125806614147930
Holidaying on Kauai Hawaii - sharing our FoodFeast abundance from Wooten's OrganicFarm.
OriginalMusicDouglas Gillies Drifting
This video is one of a series we have made especially for Facebook, they are short & sweet.
Make sure you check out our other Facebook videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_ltX20ZnXSKrpzuun-_sXyGD2RbN3BaF

Top Organic Countries

ChefMarcus Guiliano is an award-winning chef, green restaurateur, author, real food activist, professional speaker, restaurant consultant & ultra-marathoner. In addition to successfully owning and operating the first GreenCertified restaurant in the Hudson Valley, AromaThyme Bistro, Chef Marcus has begun to devote his time consulting and trouble shooting for other restaurants.

published: 15 Jul 2016

FORENA : spearheading the organic farming movement in Mauritius

The GEF Small Grant Programme and the Fondation Ressources et Nature are providing funding and expertise to Mauritian farmers who wish to start growing organic produce. Within three years, organic certification has been awarded to one of the program member associations. In Mauritius, there are no regulations governing organic agriculture. The program's goal is to prove that it is possible to be certified organic to EU standards - a challenge that requires discipline, expertise and above all, funds.

Young Greeks Create Self-reliant Island Society

On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community.
Their goa...

On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community.
Their goal is to eat only the organic produce they grow themselves, to free themselves from the national electricity grid, and to exchange what they grow or make instead of using money.
The project, whose ultimate goal is to create a school for sustainable living, was the idea of four Athenians who met online back in 2008 and bonded over their dissatisfaction with the daily grind of city life.
In their second year of living permanently on a forested patch of land next to the village of Aghios, 80 percent of the food they eat now comes from their two herb and vegetable gardens and the fruit they pick off the trees.
The group, almost all of whom follow a strict vegetarian diet, sleep communally in yurts - portable, tent-like dwellings made of tarp often seen in Central Asia.
Whatever is left over from their gardens, they exchange in the village for the supplies they cannot produce.
32-year-old co-founder Apostolos Sianos quit a well-paying job as a web site designer in Athens to help start the community, which is called 'Free and Real.'
[Apostolos Sianos, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The crisis or the austerity measures doesn't actually affect you because you create your life and your future everyday, it has nothing to do with the outside circle. It may (have) affected us, but only in a good way because more and more people are willing to be self-sufficient and sustainable, so they contact us, and more and more people after the crisis want to get involved."
The group actively use social media, and last year over one hundred people from Greece and abroad asked about joining or collaborating in some way.
Dionysis Papanikolaou, for example, gave up a lucrative academic career to be closer to nature and far from the heavy atmosphere of the financial crisis in Greece.
[Dionysis Papanikolaou, GroupMember]:
"If you keep on reading news, watching TV and the crisis, the crisis, the crisis, even subconsciously you say the crisis! Here, there is no crisis. I mean, it makes no difference."
The group take pride in being self-sufficient.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The reality of life is just outside your door. When you have to warm yourself up you actually have to go out in the wood and gather wood, fire wood, and bring it home to actually warm yourself up."
They currently organize seminars on organic farming and have drawn up the plans for a large school on sustainable living to be constructed later this summer, and for which they raised money on a crowdfunding site on the internet.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"I just try to be the change I want to be, instead of waiting for a government to make the change, or instead of voting for someone to make the change. I try to be the change."
For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com
Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision
Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C

On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community.
Their goal is to eat only the organic produce they grow themselves, to free themselves from the national electricity grid, and to exchange what they grow or make instead of using money.
The project, whose ultimate goal is to create a school for sustainable living, was the idea of four Athenians who met online back in 2008 and bonded over their dissatisfaction with the daily grind of city life.
In their second year of living permanently on a forested patch of land next to the village of Aghios, 80 percent of the food they eat now comes from their two herb and vegetable gardens and the fruit they pick off the trees.
The group, almost all of whom follow a strict vegetarian diet, sleep communally in yurts - portable, tent-like dwellings made of tarp often seen in Central Asia.
Whatever is left over from their gardens, they exchange in the village for the supplies they cannot produce.
32-year-old co-founder Apostolos Sianos quit a well-paying job as a web site designer in Athens to help start the community, which is called 'Free and Real.'
[Apostolos Sianos, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The crisis or the austerity measures doesn't actually affect you because you create your life and your future everyday, it has nothing to do with the outside circle. It may (have) affected us, but only in a good way because more and more people are willing to be self-sufficient and sustainable, so they contact us, and more and more people after the crisis want to get involved."
The group actively use social media, and last year over one hundred people from Greece and abroad asked about joining or collaborating in some way.
Dionysis Papanikolaou, for example, gave up a lucrative academic career to be closer to nature and far from the heavy atmosphere of the financial crisis in Greece.
[Dionysis Papanikolaou, GroupMember]:
"If you keep on reading news, watching TV and the crisis, the crisis, the crisis, even subconsciously you say the crisis! Here, there is no crisis. I mean, it makes no difference."
The group take pride in being self-sufficient.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The reality of life is just outside your door. When you have to warm yourself up you actually have to go out in the wood and gather wood, fire wood, and bring it home to actually warm yourself up."
They currently organize seminars on organic farming and have drawn up the plans for a large school on sustainable living to be constructed later this summer, and for which they raised money on a crowdfunding site on the internet.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"I just try to be the change I want to be, instead of waiting for a government to make the change, or instead of voting for someone to make the change. I try to be the change."
For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com
Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision
Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C

How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden - 9 EZ tips

Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Su...

Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the FrontYard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
Featured Videos:
GrowingFood in Partial Shade: http://youtu.be/jNsECuNTSQY
How to Build a Keyhole Raised Bed Garden:
http://youtu.be/EXl48VNEe9Y

Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the FrontYard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
Featured Videos:
GrowingFood in Partial Shade: http://youtu.be/jNsECuNTSQY
How to Build a Keyhole Raised Bed Garden:
http://youtu.be/EXl48VNEe9Y

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roslyn-Uttleymoore-Nutritionist/125806614147930
Holidaying on Kauai Hawaii - sharing our FoodFeast abundance from Wooten's OrganicFarm.
OriginalMusicDouglas Gillies Drifting
This video is one of a series we have made especially for Facebook, they are short & sweet.
Make sure you check out our other Facebook videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_ltX20ZnXSKrpzuun-_sXyGD2RbN3BaF

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roslyn-Uttleymoore-Nutritionist/125806614147930
Holidaying on Kauai Hawaii - sharing our FoodFeast abundance from Wooten's OrganicFarm.
OriginalMusicDouglas Gillies Drifting
This video is one of a series we have made especially for Facebook, they are short & sweet.
Make sure you check out our other Facebook videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_ltX20ZnXSKrpzuun-_sXyGD2RbN3BaF

ChefMarcus Guiliano is an award-winning chef, green restaurateur, author, real food activist, professional speaker, restaurant consultant & ultra-marathoner. In addition to successfully owning and operating the first GreenCertified restaurant in the Hudson Valley, AromaThyme Bistro, Chef Marcus has begun to devote his time consulting and trouble shooting for other restaurants.

ChefMarcus Guiliano is an award-winning chef, green restaurateur, author, real food activist, professional speaker, restaurant consultant & ultra-marathoner. In addition to successfully owning and operating the first GreenCertified restaurant in the Hudson Valley, AromaThyme Bistro, Chef Marcus has begun to devote his time consulting and trouble shooting for other restaurants.

FORENA : spearheading the organic farming movement in Mauritius

The GEF Small Grant Programme and the Fondation Ressources et Nature are providing funding and expertise to Mauritian farmers who wish to start growing organic ...

The GEF Small Grant Programme and the Fondation Ressources et Nature are providing funding and expertise to Mauritian farmers who wish to start growing organic produce. Within three years, organic certification has been awarded to one of the program member associations. In Mauritius, there are no regulations governing organic agriculture. The program's goal is to prove that it is possible to be certified organic to EU standards - a challenge that requires discipline, expertise and above all, funds.

The GEF Small Grant Programme and the Fondation Ressources et Nature are providing funding and expertise to Mauritian farmers who wish to start growing organic produce. Within three years, organic certification has been awarded to one of the program member associations. In Mauritius, there are no regulations governing organic agriculture. The program's goal is to prove that it is possible to be certified organic to EU standards - a challenge that requires discipline, expertise and above all, funds.

Young Greeks Create Self-reliant Island Society

On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community.
Their goal is to eat only the organic produce they grow themselves, to free themselves from the national electricity grid, and to exchange what they grow or make instead of using money.
The project, whose ultimate goal is to create a school for sustainable living, was the idea of four Athenians who met online back in 2008 and bonded over their dissatisfaction with the daily grind of city life.
In their second year of living permanently on a forested patch of land next to the village of Aghios, 80 percent of the food they eat now comes from their two herb and vegetable gardens and the fruit they pick off the trees.
The group, almost all of whom follow a strict vegetarian diet, sleep communally in yurts - portable, tent-like dwellings made of tarp often seen in Central Asia.
Whatever is left over from their gardens, they exchange in the village for the supplies they cannot produce.
32-year-old co-founder Apostolos Sianos quit a well-paying job as a web site designer in Athens to help start the community, which is called 'Free and Real.'
[Apostolos Sianos, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The crisis or the austerity measures doesn't actually affect you because you create your life and your future everyday, it has nothing to do with the outside circle. It may (have) affected us, but only in a good way because more and more people are willing to be self-sufficient and sustainable, so they contact us, and more and more people after the crisis want to get involved."
The group actively use social media, and last year over one hundred people from Greece and abroad asked about joining or collaborating in some way.
Dionysis Papanikolaou, for example, gave up a lucrative academic career to be closer to nature and far from the heavy atmosphere of the financial crisis in Greece.
[Dionysis Papanikolaou, GroupMember]:
"If you keep on reading news, watching TV and the crisis, the crisis, the crisis, even subconsciously you say the crisis! Here, there is no crisis. I mean, it makes no difference."
The group take pride in being self-sufficient.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"The reality of life is just outside your door. When you have to warm yourself up you actually have to go out in the wood and gather wood, fire wood, and bring it home to actually warm yourself up."
They currently organize seminars on organic farming and have drawn up the plans for a large school on sustainable living to be constructed later this summer, and for which they raised money on a crowdfunding site on the internet.
[Panagiotis Kantas, Co-Founder of 'Free and Real']:
"I just try to be the change I want to be, instead of waiting for a government to make the change, or instead of voting for someone to make the change. I try to be the change."
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How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden - 9 EZ tips

Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the FrontYard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
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The GEF Small Grant Programme and the Fondation Ressources et Nature are providing funding and expertise to Mauritian farmers who wish to start growing organic produce. Within three years, organic certification has been awarded to one of the program member associations. In Mauritius, there are no regulations governing organic agriculture. The program's goal is to prove that it is possible to be certified organic to EU standards - a challenge that requires discipline, expertise and above all, funds.

Organic food

Organic foods are foods produced by organic farming. While the standards differ worldwide, organic farming in general features cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity. Synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers are not allowed, although certain approved pesticides may be used. In general, organic foods are also not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or synthetic food additives.

Currently, the European Union, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan and many other countries require producers to obtain special certification in order to market food as organic within their borders. In the context of these regulations, organic food is food produced in a way that complies with organic standards set by national governments and international organizations. Although the produce of kitchen gardens may be organic, selling food with the organic label is regulated by governmental food safety authorities, such as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) or European Commission.